Australia 137/3 (20/20 ov)
Sri Lanka 139/5 (18.5/20 ov)
Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets (with 7 balls remaining)
- Sri Lanka in Australia T20I Series - 1st T20I
- T20I no. 299 | 2012/13 season
- Played at Stadium Australia, Sydney
- 26 January 2013 - day/night (20-over match)
| Australia innings (20 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| DA Warner | not out | 90 | 62 | 5 | 3 | 145.16 | ||
 | AJ Finch | c MDKJ Perera b Kulasekara | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 33.33 | |
| SE Marsh | run out (Dilshan) | 6 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 35.29 | |
| GJ Bailey* | c Dilshan b NLTC Perera | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 122.22 | |
| AC Voges | not out | 25 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 86.20 | ||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 2, w 1) | 4 | ||||||
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| Total | (3 wickets; 20 overs) | 137 | (6.85 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat MS Wade†, GJ Maxwell, BCJ Cutting, MA Starc, XJ Doherty, B Laughlin |
| Fall of wickets 1-8 (Finch, 1.5 ov), 2-31 (Marsh, 6.3 ov), 3-53 (Bailey, 8.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| AD Mathews | 4 | 0 | 39 | 0 | 9.75 | (1w) | ||
| KMDN Kulasekara | 4 | 0 | 21 | 1 | 5.25 | ||
| SL Malinga | 4 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 4.75 | |||
| NLTC Perera | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 7.25 | ||
| BAW Mendis | 4 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 6.50 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 138 runs from 20 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| MDKJ Perera | c †Wade b Maxwell | 33 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 150.00 | |
| TM Dilshan | c Laughlin b Doherty | 16 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 76.19 | |
| DPMD Jayawardene | b Doherty | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 80.00 | |
| LD Chandimal† | c Cutting b Maxwell | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 83.33 | |
| AD Mathews* | not out | 35 | 27 | 3 | 1 | 129.62 | ||
| HDRL Thirimanne | c Voges b Starc | 20 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 133.33 | |
| NLTC Perera | not out | 19 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 158.33 | ||
| Extras | (lb 2, w 1) | 3 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 18.5 overs) | 139 | (7.38 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat BMAJ Mendis, KMDN Kulasekara, BAW Mendis, SL Malinga |
| Fall of wickets 1-46 (Dilshan, 6.2 ov), 2-53 (MDKJ Perera, 7.3 ov), 3-61 (Chandimal, 9.1 ov), 4-69 (Jayawardene, 10.5 ov),5-104 (Thirimanne, 15.2 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| XJ Doherty | 4 | 0 | 21 | 2 | 5.25 | ||
| MA Starc | 4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 4.75 | (1w) | |
| BCJ Cutting | 3 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 9.00 | |||
| B Laughlin | 3.5 | 0 | 46 | 0 | 12.00 | |||
| GJ Maxwell | 3 | 0 | 15 | 2 | 5.00 | ||
| AJ Finch | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 9.00 |
| Match details |
| Toss Australia, who chose to bat |
| T20I debuts BCJ Cutting (Australia); MDKJ Perera (Sri Lanka) Player of the match tba |
| Umpires SD Fry and PR Reiffel TV umpire JD Ward Match referee J Srinath (India) Reserve umpire AJ Barrow |
| Match notes |
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